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Continental Philosophy
A Critical Approach
William R. Schroeder (Author)
9781557868817, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 23 September 2004
480 pages
24.6 x 17.3 x 3.3 cm, 0.835 kg
"Schroeder has a masterful command of the Continental tradition after Kant in European philosophy. He presents a comprehensive critical introduction to the philosophers who have shaped it, in an admirably clear and concise idiom that is readily accessible to academics, students, and general readers alike." "This is an enormously impressive work. In the fashion of a panoramic mosaic, it assembles incisive analyses of the host of thinkers who comprise the 'Continental Tradition' in philosophy. Like no other book before it, it succeeds not only in helping us to understand the past, but also defines an array of future tasks that those working in this field will have to address." "Schroeder captures Continental philosophy's complex trajectory in clear and thoughtful language. Along the way, he offers provocative challenges to many of its central figures."
—Richard Schacht, University of Illinois
—Frithjof Bergmann, University of Michigan
—Todd May, Clemson University
Continental Philosophy: A Critical Approach is a lucid and wide-ranging introduction to the key figures and philosophical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Acknowledgments ix Preface x Introduction 1 Descartes 1 Empiricism and the Rise of Science 4 Rationalism 7 The French Enlightenment 8 Challenges to the Enlightenment: Rousseau and Romanticism 11 Kant 16 Problems with Kant’s System 20 Fichte 23 Schelling 25 Hölderlin, Novalis, and Schiller 28 1 Hegel 30 Core Contributions 30 Life 32 The Phenomenology of Spirit 33 Philosophy of History 41 Politics and Ethics 44 Aesthetics 47 Philosophy of Mind 50 The Preface to the Phenomenologyas a Transition to the System 52 The System 55 Assessment 56 2 Marx And Western Marxism 60 Marx: Core Contributions 60 Life 61 Early Marx: Alienation and Capitalism 62 The Materialist Conception of History 66 Marx’s Analysis of the Capitalist Mode of Production 71 Assessment 74 Western Marxism 76 Core Contributions 79 Gramsci 80 Horkheimer 83 Marcuse 85 Habermas 88 Assessment 91 Summary 92 3 Life-Philosophy And Subconscious Forces: Schopenhauer, Freud, And Bergson 93 Core Contributions 93 Schopenhauer 95 Freud 98 Bergson 107 Comparisons 111 Assessment 113 4 Nietzsche 117 Core Contributions 117 Life 119 On Reading Nietzsche 119 The Death of God and the Struggle Against Nihilism 120 Critique of Morality and Revaluation of Values 124 Constructive Ethics: Life-Affirmation, Power, Individuated Virtues 130 Art 132 History 134 Culture and Politics 136 Human Life and Consciousness 138 Epistemology and Metaphysics 140 New Philosophers 142 Comparisons 143 Assessment 146 5 Hermeneutics 149 Core Contributions 149 A Precursor: Schleiermacher 152 Dilthey 154 Heidegger 158 Gadamer 165 Betti 167 Comparisons 169 Assessment 170 6 Phenomenology 174 Introduction 174 Core Contributions 177 Some Types of Phenomenology 181 The Contributions of the Founder: Husserl 183 Concrete Phenomenological Studies 187 Phenomenology and Social Science 199 Other Applications 201 Comparisons 202 Assessment 203 7 Existentialism And Philosophical Anthropology 206 Core Contributions 206 Existentialism 207 Kierkegaard 209 Heidegger 215 Sartre 221 Philosophical Anthropology 228 Scheler 229 Goldstein 234 Gehlen 237 Assessment 240 8 Structuralism 243 Core Contributions 243 Saussure 245 Barthes 249 Lévi-Strauss 253 Lacan 257 Althusser 260 Barthes’s Transcendence of Structuralism 263 Assessment 264 9 Philosophies Of Dispersion 267 Introduction 267 Core Contributions 268 Foucault 271 Derrida 280 Deleuze 287 Assessment 291 10 French Feminist Philosophy 297 Core Contributions 297 De Beauvoir 299 Kristeva 305 Irigaray 310 Le Doeuff 315 Comparisons 319 Assessment 320 11 Postmodernism 323 Some Distinctions 323 Core Contributions 325 Lyotard 327 Baudrillard 332 Assessment 341 Conclusions 345 Strengths and Achievements 345 Decision-points 351 Specific Field Contributions 357 Dispersionist Challenges to the Tradition: A Response 363 Notes 374 Bibliography 403 Index 429
Subject Areas: Philosophy [HP]
